October 4, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) is building research into the access layer of its digital-asset franchise, treating analysis of decentralized finance as infrastructure rather than a side commentary on Bitcoin. This year, the banking institution has placed a dedicated digital assets research desk beside ETF access… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:18 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Menos AI, an artificial intelligence platform for institutional investors, has raised $5.1 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by returning investor Copper Sky Capital, with participation from Alpha Square Group. The startup said the fresh funding brings its total funding to more than… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European market supervisors are examining whether Binance is still providing crypto-asset services to customers in the European Union without the authorization the bloc’s new regime now requires. Reporting by the FT says the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and national authorities in France, Germany and… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Capitolis to acquire eSecLending in $200M, all-cash deal eSecLending is an independent securities lending business working with large asset owners, including pension funds, insurance companies, and asset managers, to lend securities to major global banks. The acquisition lets Capitolis add securities lending as a complementary… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of the crypto fund Maelstrom and chief executive of Flop Labs, is arguing that the artificial-intelligence buildout is less a durable earnings story than a credit boom whose eventual strain could force official liquidity back into digital assets. In his… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy’s (NASDAQ: MSTR) large Bitcoin holdings now sit at the center of a capital-markets operation that raises fresh dollars and distributes regular, dollar-denominated income to preferred investors, while common shareholders retain leveraged exposure to further coin accumulation. In a September 29, 2026 explanation of the… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask has begun withdrawing a large set of Ethereum validators from active duty after reporting a security incident inside part of its infrastructure. The company says ordinary wallet users were not exposed and that customer funds were not put at risk. The response is concentrated… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s financial regulator has taken the next formal step toward putting tokenized securities into the existing capital markets system, publishing draft subordinate rules that would let the framework start operating in early 2027. On October 1, 2026, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) proposed amendments to… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is widening its partnership with Anthropic, bringing the Claude family of models deeper into day-to-day work across the British universal bank. The October 1, 2026 announcement frames the move as an effort to place secure, enterprise-grade systems throughout global operations, with particular… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blast, the Ethereum Layer 2 network backed by Paradigm, is winding down after concluding that the cost of keeping the chain running has overtaken the revenue it produces. The project said on October 2, 2026, that it no longer sees a workable route to economic… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Government bond markets worldwide came under renewed strain at the start of October as investors reassessed the path of inflation and growth, pushing sovereign yields to levels not seen in decades and lifting borrowing costs across major economies. The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield briefly… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Intents suspended its services on October 1, 2026, after identifying a security incident that the team preliminarily linked to roughly $3.8 million in losses. The cross-chain trading protocol said the problem originated in a flaw involving the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings has cleared a decisive shareholder hurdle on the way to a planned Nasdaq listing, after investors in its blank-check merger partner backed the deal that would turn the firm into a publicly traded vehicle centered on XRP. Evernorth and Armada Acquisition Corp. II… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An attacker who exploited a flaw in Zano’s Gateway Address feature minted roughly 36.9 million unauthorized ZANO before the project reversed about a month of blockchain history, according to a post-mortem released by the team. The disclosure, published Thursday, describes two large minting events. On… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project have brought a mainnet system online that lets people pay for metered APIs without tying those calls to a durable billing identity. Announced on October 1, 2026, by Vittorio Rivabella of the Foundation’s dAI team, the design—called… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 12:20 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

  Capital Ideas podcast guest reflects on pioneering veteran-focused Reg A+ lending, why the SEC’s investor-protection instincts outran Congress’s intent, and how his new venture, Century House, is trying to give financial advisors a bigger role in their clients’ lives. Mark Rockefeller has spent the… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood’s (NASDAQ: HOOD) crypto leadership says the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new on-chain equity pathway may limit, rather than immediately clear, a US launch of the firm’s stock tokens. Johann Kerbrat, senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, made the… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York and Wyoming regulators have agreed to coordinate supervision of virtual currency and digital asset businesses, including a pathway that aims to produce licensing decisions within six months for certain established firms. On October 1, 2026, the New York State Department of Financial Services… Read More